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LITERATURE, AMERICAN, IN 1890. 



author of " Aminta." " Tisayac of the Yosem- 

 ite," by Mrs. M, B. Toland, was beautifully 

 illustrated, and "Young Konkaput, the King 

 of the Utes," was "A legend of Twin Lakes," 

 by Thomas N. Haskell. G. A Buff urn wrote " A 

 Driftwood Fire"; Algernon S. Logan, " Messa- 

 lina," a tragedy in five acts ; and E. S. Martin 

 brought out his " Little Brother of the Rich " in 

 a volume with other poems. Milton S. Terry 

 translated " The Sybillme Oracles " from Greek 

 into English blank verse; while choice selec- 

 tions of poetry were made by Katherine " Lee 

 Bates in the " Ballad Book " ; and by Jessie F. 

 O'Donnell in her " Love Poems of Three Cent- 

 uries, 1590-1890." An enlarged but cheaper 

 edition was also made of " Famous Single 

 and Fugitive Poems," edited by Rossiter John- 

 son. " Representative Sonnets by American 

 Poets" (over 200 of whom are represented) 

 were edited by Charles H. Crandall, and 

 " American Sonnets " by T. W. Higginson and 

 E. H. Bigelow. W. L. Fagan compiled " South- 

 ern War Songs : Camp-fire, Patriotic, and Senti- 

 mental," and T. W. Herringshaw " Local and 

 National Poets of America," more than 1,000 

 living poets being included. " Under the Nurs- 

 ery Lamp " was an anonymous collection of 

 poems about children, and for them Laura E. 

 Kichards wrote "In my Nursery." "Legends 

 and Lyrics " and " Pastorals, Lyrics, and Son- 

 nets " are volumes of selections from Whittier 

 and Wordsworth, the first by S. W. Young. J. 

 P. McCaskey published his seventh volume in 

 the " Franklin Square Song Collection." 



Criticism and General Literature. Some 

 of the best work of the year falls under this head. 

 " Literature and Poetry," by Dr. Philip Schaff, 

 was a series of essays on special literary topics 

 and on great poems, principally religious, with 

 an admirable and scholarly introduction devoted 

 to the English language ; and " Conversations 

 in a Studio," by William Wetmore Story, filled 

 two delightful volumes. Hamilton Wright Ma- 

 bie's reflections by " My Study Fire " exhibit at 

 once power and sweetness, and from George E. 

 Woodberry, the poet, we had " Studies in Life 

 and Letters." Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes held 

 his own " Over the Tea-Cups " and " In a Club 

 Corner " was " The Monologue of a Man who 

 might have been Sociable," overheard by A. P. 

 Russell. Edgar Saltus supplied papers on " Love 

 and Lore," and Bishop Hugh Miller Thompson 

 ' Copy Essays from an Editor's Drawer on Re- 

 ligion, Literature, and Life." "Essays and 

 Studies," by Basil L. Gildersleeve, close the class 

 of essays proper, while " Studies in Literature 

 and Style," by Theodore W. Hunt, stand at the 

 head of specially directed efforts. "English 

 Lands, Letters, and Kings," by Donald G. Mitch- 

 ell, the first volume of which, published in 1889, 

 covered the period " From Celt to Tudor," was 

 continued " From Elizabeth to Anne " with un- 

 flagging interest. " English Poetry and Poets," 

 by Sarah Warner Brooks, was a book needed for 

 a long while, while " Hindu Literature" was the 

 theme chosen by another lady, Mrs. Elizabeth A. 

 Reed. " A History of Greek Literature " was 

 written by Thomas Sergeant Perry; "A Primer of 

 French Literature," by F. W. Warren ; while that 

 of America was treated by Albert H. Smyth in 

 " American Literature." " A Synopsis of English 



and American Literature," by G. J. Smith, and 

 " A Digest of English and American Literature," 

 by Alfred H. Welsh, equipped us for all possible 

 needs ; and the " Library of American Litera- 

 ture," edited by Edmund C. Stedman and Ellen 

 M. Hutchinson, received its eleventh and final 

 volume. " Our Book " was " An Exhaustive 

 Store of Reminiscences and Literary Lore," 

 collected by W. Frothingham and C. Tower. 

 " Our Mother Tongue " was the subject of 

 Theodore H. Mead, and " Pure Saxon Eng- 

 lish" that of Elias Molee. Alfred Hennequin 

 discoursed upon " The Art of Play Writing," and 

 T. Campbell Copeland was responsible for " The 

 Ladder of Journalism " and instructions how to 

 climb it. In archeology appeared " Races and 

 Peoples " and " Essays of an Americanist," by 

 Daniel G. Brinton, M. D., who also edited the 

 " Rig Veda Americanus." sacred songs of the an- 

 cient Mexican ; while books devoted to the mound 

 builders were " The Cherokees in Pre-Columbian 

 Times " of Cyrus Thomas, " The Antiquities of 

 Tennessee," by Gen. Gates P. Thurston, "The 

 Antiquities of the State of Ohio," by H. A. Shep- 

 herd, and " Fort Warren," by Warren K. Moore- 

 head, of the Smithsonian Institution, who sur- 

 veyed it in 1889. " Our Race : its Origin and 

 Destiny," by Charles A. L. Totten (with an intro- 

 duction by C. Piazzi Smith), was the first of a 

 series of studies to prove the identity of the An- 

 glo-Saxons with the ten lost tribes of Israel, while 

 " Epitomes of Three Sciences," in one volume, by 

 Profs. H. Oldenberg, Joseph Jastrow, and C. H. 

 Cornhill, were respectively " The Study of San- 

 skrit," "Aspects of Modern Psychology," and 

 " The Rise of the People of Israel." To myth and 

 folk lore belong: " Myths and Folk-Tales of the 

 Russians, Western Slavs, and Magyars " and 

 " Myths and Folk-Lore of Ireland," by Jeremiah 

 Curtin ; " Turf-Fire Stories and Fairy-Tales of 

 Ireland," by Barry O'Connor ; and " Modern Fairy 

 Lore," by Mrs. Adda F. Howie. " An Outline of 

 Greek and Roman Mythology " was also made by 

 Francis W. Kelsey. " English-Eskimo and Es- 

 kimo-English," were vocabularies compiled by 

 Roger Wells, Jr., and J. W. Kelly, forming Cir- 

 cular of Information No. 2 of the Bureau of Edu- 

 cation at Washington, and Charles Jonas pub- 

 lished " Bohemian made easy," a practical course 

 for English-speaking people. Nature studies in- 

 clude : " The Story of My House," by George H. 

 Ellwanger, author of ""The Garden's Story " ; 

 " The Garden as considered in Literature by Cer- 

 tain Polite Writers," a volume of selections by 

 Walter Howe, accompanied with a critical essay ; 

 " Outings at Odd Times," by C. C. Abbott, M. D. ; 

 and " The Blessed Birds," a protest against their 

 wanton destruction, by Eldridge E. Fish, the 

 best authority on birds in western New York. 

 " Brampton Sketches," by Mrs. Mary B. Claflin, 

 picture old-time New England life, and T. C. De 

 Leon described "Our Creole Carnivals." " Studies 

 in Young Life " were " A Series of Word-Pict- 

 ures and Practical Papers " by Bishop John H. 

 Vincent, and " Here a Little and there a Little," 

 essays, sketches, and detached thoughts of Anne 

 W. Maylin, posthumously published. E. Chester 

 discoursed on " Girls and Women " in the " Riv- 

 erside Library for Young People " ; " Forward 

 March, through Battle to Victory " consisted of 

 " Talks to Young People on Life and Success," 



